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Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.
by sureIy 1y ago
Unfortunately some people want to have some semblance of social life and in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool.
- sneak 1y agoThis doesn’t get better by ignoring the problem. This is the social equivalent of just throwing your hands up and saying “it can’t be helped”. I cannot stress this enough: it _is not_ true. Deleting your IG will not cause your friends to stop being your friends. Being on these platforms legitimizes their use. It makes the situation _worse_. It is a vote for surveillance and censorship of your most intimate personal connections.
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- aleph_minus_one 1y ago> in some circles dropping Instagram means decimating your pool Rather: dropping Instagram means improving the (average) quality of the people in your pool. :-)
- sureIy 1y agoNot if you're under 25
- aleph_minus_one 1y agoEven then (or even particularly then). In this age, some persons rather have very "twisted" measures of quality for other people.
- djaychela 1y agoBut that definitely isn't everyone and the more people who reject your normalisation of this, the less strength there will be to it. And social life certainly doesn't look like Instagram statistics monitoring to me.
- robertlagrant 1y agoThat's a conflicting requirement. You can't want to be free of drugs and also keep doing heroin because all your friends do it.
- HenryBemis 1y agoFacebook could implement the feature that could tell you which of your friends is within walking distance, so you can grab a coffee, but nope. Also facebook = cancer, and unfortunately now we have more cancers (TikTok, etc.)
- sureIy 1y agoThey actually did at some point, but people hate that. https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/ https://howfinity.com/how-to-use-facebook-nearby-friends/